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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Denmark has received data leaked from a Panamanian law firm that helped customers open offshore companies to avoid paying taxes, authorities said on Sept. 29, adding they paid nearly 6 million kroner ($902,500) for it.

Jim Soerensen, an official with the Danish Customs and Tax Administration, said they “were given permission Sept. 9 to run through the material before we paid.”

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